M is for Movies

yay, movies, movies and more movies!


BUT firstly! i went to sanity on the last day of school to see if i could get tangled, since it came out in america on the uhm...30th of march i think. so i go in and i cant find it anywhere! and i ask the guy at the counter and he checks it out and he says that it actually comes out on the 11TH OF MAY!? what is this!? arghhhh. BUT, joyce saw some awesom tangled posters on ebay, and the guy who made it makes like an amazing amount of awesome photos, he has about 200 pages on his ebay page, and everything is free shipping and so theyre just like $10 each so i got one of the tangled posters, as a temporary relief for the lack of dvd-ness going on here.

seriously, why does it come out so much later than in america?


okay so now for the movies:

The Social Network
For those of you who don't know what this is about (and how can you not), it's about Mark Zuckerburg's creation of Facebook, starting from the days he was at Harvard when it first launched, and how he has used and exploited the friends which helped him to create it.

It's based on the true story of the real Zuckerberg (I wikied the characters) and it is pretty interesting, although quite heartbreaking towards the end when you see his friendships crumble. I mean of course, I feel sorry for the friends he used, but I also feel kind of sorry for him. The movie portrays him as a some sort of innocent guy who actually follows the advice of another, and this turns to be his downfall and I like the ending of it, it adds a sort of, not cliche, but reflective and happy-ish ending.

Oh, what's also interesting to note is that one scene of the film has someone saying all the people that facebook has attracted, like two Olympian rowers and a movie star. Another person asks who the movie star is, to be replied, "Does it matter?" Well, I IMDb'ed this up, and the movie star was actually Natalie Portman! She was at Harvard during the time that facebook first started, and she even helped the scriptwriter by telling him what went on during that time. That's amazing, props to you Natalie, I never knew you were smart enough to get into Harvard.


The King's Speech
This also tells of the true story of King George VI (hopefully I got that right), and his terrible stutter. This is during the time the radio was first invented and used, and so everyone not only in England, but in Australia and other countries under British rule could listen to the Kings' speeches.

However, how does one give a great speech when he has a stammer? He can't, unfortunately, as the dreadfully heartbreaking first scene shows. Well, this is based on a true story, and so you can expect some happy ending which is NOT cliche but compeltely realistic, which is exactly what I love. And gosh, I just loved all the actors in it! There's three Harry Potter actors in this, by the way.


127 hours
Well, it seems I've been watching a lot of true stories lately... This time about a climber, Aron Ralstone, who gets stuck in a canyon when a very large and heavy boulder crushes his arm. From the time he leaves his truck in the morning to the time he gets rescued takes 127 hours, approximately 5 days. At the end of the 5 days you find himself acutally cutting his own arm off with a blunt swiss army knife... O_O And remember: this is a true story.

And Aron Ralstone himself even said that this movie was so factually correct it could have been a documentary with added drama, or something along those lines. Ralstone actually did have a video camera with him and filmed himself when he was stuck, and now this video recorder is kept in some vault for protection, with only his close family and friends, the director and james franco having seen the footage he took. And no, him cutting his arm off is not meant to be a spoiler.

The beauty of this film is just...the awesome directing and the realistic acting...not to mention the crazy special effects during the scene of his...cutting... (apparently some audience members fainted and needed medical attention because it was so realistic - and yes, i was squriming on my sofa...i can never look at a swiss army knife the same again).


Black Swan
Okay now, shying away from the heartbreakingly true stories, we move to Nina Sayers, a professional ballet dancer who, basically, just goes insane. No joke, this chick goes mental! I felt so sorry for her all throughout the film, since her sanity is seen to be caused by the stresses of her ballet company.

Okay, and whilst a lot of people hyped it up to be a really awesome horror movie, it's not horror. Whoever coined it as a horror film; you are wrong. This is more of a thriller...and I love thrillers. It's a bit slow-paced, though, at the beginning but gets better as the film progresses. There's not much I can say without ruining the film, but Natalie Portman is a great actor and dancer in this and deserved all the awards she got. The ending is one where you have to sort of think about it. Some might take it in the most literal sense, but I dunno...it's all very weird to me and I have my theories of my own. But yes, good movie.


SO, now that you have just read this, go out and watch these movies! =] Of the four of them, I would have to say that my favourite is 127 Hours...I don't think I'd want to watch the other films again for a while now.